Hi everyone,

openSUSE 11.1 Alpha1 is available -- but beware, this is an Alpha with very rough edges!

While testing this on a Thinkpad R51, the system didn't boot after first stage installation. We are still looking into this issue (#411937). In addition to that, the default GNOME installation will complain about a missing package (providing gnome-session-branding)[1].

With the current bootloader issue, using the DVDs for installing is not recommended, until we have a workaround. Please try the LiveCDs instead!

openSUSE 11.1 Alpha1 GNOME LiveCDs: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.1-Alpha1/iso/cd/openSUSE-11.1-A... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.1-Alpha1/iso/cd/openSUSE-11.1-A... openSUSE 11.1 Alpha1 KDE4 LiveCDs: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.1-Alpha1/iso/cd/openSUSE-11.1-A... http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.1-Alpha1/iso/cd/openSUSE-11.1-A...

Please refer to http://software.opensuse.org/developer for further details and all the links.

Happy testing, Christoph

[1] missing package is available from: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.1-Alpha1/hotfix/